Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-08
Some Of Hermann's Tricks.
rom the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
In an uptown managers Office the
other day a little group OF theatrical
men were talking about the Interstate
commerce bill and other cheerful sub.
jects, when q tall, thin, swarthy man,
with a dark curling mustache and i'm
perial, entered. He was received with
shout of welcome. "Now for some
entertainment" said one of those
present, and in a very few minutes
the prophecy was fulfilled. The
newcomer was Hermann; a
magician, who contrives to make
things generally lively wherever he
may happen to find himself. After re,
plying good humoredly to torrent
of questions about his recent Brook
Ign adventure-he was led to police
station and narrowly escaped the
night in a lookup for playing practical
joke on the occupants OF q street car
he said in French English: cit was
great fun, boys, though / have not
yet seen a strictly true account Of it.
1t made itself as thus: I find myself
in a street car with two Or three wor.
thy people who look as though they
were too sleepy and need waking up.
/ wake them. Instead OF thanking me,
they accuse me to- policeman oil
picking their pockets. The policeman,
takes me to the station house with
my sleepy friends. The sergeant
there takes the charge down and asks
me for what you call my pedigree. ]
give it to him and am about to be
sent to dungeon, when, with all the
politeness at my command, I say:
~"Will the monsieurs not search their
pockets and. see if they have been
truly robbed?'. They do so. The one
who has had q watch finds the peck
et-book OF the other in his tail pocket.
The pocketbook man finds a gold
watch in his trowsers pocket, while a
diamond pin which the third man has
lost is neatly pinned in the lapel OIL
the worthy policeman. Once more,
speaking politely, l say, Hold on,
too have something lost and taking
off the hat Of the sergeant, I show him,
underneath the lining roll OF green.
backs. They say no word, and l.
bowing politely once more, leave The
station house, i ...s..
For the next ten minutes Hermann
turned the gathering into private
seance and exhibited in rapid success,
sion some really astonishing sleight o.
hand tricks. Il One OF the party was
rolling cigarette. "Give me Gig
arctic paper said Hermann. The
little book OF cigarette papers was
handed him; be took one out and be,
gan deliberately tearing the slip OIL
tissue paper into eight or ten small
pieces. These he folded together once
or twice and then passed them to
one OF the party. ''Roll it tight, y
said he, "between your. finger and
thumb The request was complied
with, q nd, q little ball OF paper the
size Of q pea was the result Of The pre-
cess. aUnroll that said Hermann,
t'but mind you do not drop the pieces
to the floor" The little ball was
carefully unrolled and found to be the
exact size and make Of that taken
from the book and torn up by the
conjurer. As the subject gazed blank,
- at this astonishing transfer.
nation, Hermann took it from
him and folded it in, two once
more, and, giving it back, told him
again to roll it into small ball
This was done, and when Il was again
.uniolded, half q dozen scraps Of torn
paper were all that remained. Hs